CLLR TTS Hirano 
SSS 
The Water Caltrop. 
Trapa, 
The root is very long, 
a multitude of fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, and each is fup- 
ported on a long, flender footftalk : they are 
broad, fhort; and in figure half round ; being 
_ flat where they join the ftalk, and rounded each 
way from thence: they are of a flefhy fubftance 
and of a dead green. 
The footftalks are round, fmooth, light, and 
hollow. 
The flowers rife among the leaves, and are 
flender, and hung with 
fupported each on a fingle, naked footftalk,’ 
nearly as long as thofe of the leaves: they are ! 
large and white. 
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; The feed-veffel is large, and extremely hard: 
ic is armed with four very ftrong and fharp 
Prickles, and contains only one feed. The ker- 
nel is very fweet: it has the tafte of a cheft- 
nut. ; 
Tt is frequent in the warmer 
; parts of Euro 
and in the Eaft, and will live in the falt, as balk 
as frefh, water, 
All the writers call it Tribulus aquaticus, or - 
Trapa. ; ' ; 
~ The fruit is pleafant and nourifhing. It is eaten 
in feme places as a delicacy, and in others as a 
neceflary feed; being ground to a kind of flour 
and made into bread. 
The' EN D of the FOURTEENTH CLASS, 
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